Demo tenant VA deployment

[JackSparrow (Theja C)]

Hi All,

I’m planning to deploy VA to my demo tenant. I got few questions here. Could someone please help me here?

1. VA package(unzipped) is nearly 132 GB where I don’t have space in my local machine to extract. What is the other option for this?
2. If I go with Azure deployment, do I still need to download and unzip the package in my local machine? If not, creating a new VM in Azure and then extracting the file there?
3. Per deployment document I do see some Azure CLI commands. Do I need to create all the highlighted ones before I run those commands?
   
   

[iamnithesh (Nithesh Rao)]

@JackSparrow

VA package(unzipped) is nearly 132 GB

Not sure where you got this from. Downloaded file from Add VA page is less than a GB

[JackSparrow (Theja C)]

Thanks @iamnithesh . Downloaded VA Image from UI didn’t work initially as I was getting “expired pairing code or incorrect” error. I tried Azure and Hyper-V solutions as well which didn’t work and bit complicated as well.

Finally, I’m able to deploy VA successfully by following below steps. Hope it helps for anyone who is struggling with the same.

Steps to be followed:

1. Download the VA image (OVF file) from UI and extract it

Connections–>Virtual Appliances–>Create New–>Virtual appliances–>Download VA Image

2. Install any Virtualization platform that supports OVF files like VMWare workstation pro or Oracle Virtual box.

3. Import the extracted VA image (OVF file) to Virtualization platform and follow below steps mentioned.
   

   

4. Run below commands to set passphrase and to get a pairing code.

–>va-bootstrap set-passphrase -t demo (For demo tenants don’t run va-bootstrap set-passphrase command as per documentation as it will not work)

→ va-bootstrap pair

6. Get the pairing code and pair the VM.

7. Set the static IP address.
   

   

Type “ip addr” in terminal to get the NIC name.

To get DNS do nslookup
E.g., nslookup google.com

Address = ens160 ip address (take the ip address from the image above)

E.g., Address=172.16.163.144/24

Gateway = same as DNS IP address

Note: Set the static IP address at last, don’t set it before getting pairing code.